Shrove Tuesday - Tuesday 16th February 2021

St Luke's invite you to drop in and enjoy a traditional Shrove Tuesday Pancake between 9.00am and 11.00am on Tuesday 16th February 2021.

All are welcome for tea, coffee and a pancake and a time of fellowship.

Shrove Tuesday (or Pancake Day) comes from the old English custom of using up all the fattening ingredients in the house so that people were ready to fast during Lent.  The fattening ingredients that most people had in their houses in those days were eggs and milk.  A very simple recipe to use up these ingredients was to combine them with some flour and make pancakes!

The custom of making pancakes still continues today and in many English towns and villages, pancake races (where people race with a frying pan while tossing a pancake in it!) are held along with pancake tossing competitions.  In France it is called Mardi Gras!

So....please come and join us at St Luke's for a pancake and a cup of tea or coffee on your way to school or work.

A gold coin donation would be appreciated.

Pancakes kindly sponsored by Van Dyck Fine Foods Limited.